The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-07-29
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The watcltwara of prohibition is, as
Il ever should be, Oascdrd. 1t is an
evidence or the working Of the cause Of
Temperance sentiment when the prin-
.cipal dailigs of the commercial centers
throughout the East are alive to the
fact that something must be done to
check the rum power. As a still fur
ther evidence, the law making power
during the recent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., in
fwenty-one of the states, has been
called upon to take measures to check
the growth and stamp out the saloon,
the enemy of the home, society and
general prosperity.
1t is evident that the country is
aroused when many of the most prom
inent statesmen and leading citizens
are taking sides and are being identi-
fled with the prohibition movement
for the home and against the saloon.
Prohibition Is fast becoming the
fixed principle and policy ofthe whole
country, and as thinking men what
else could we expect, when from such
unquestionable authority as General
Eaton, comes the statement that
eighty per cent of the crime of our
country il the result of intemperance.n .
And the statement is fully sustained
by the reports from localities under
prohibition. Gov. VIM. Larrabee OF
Iowa, writes in the Chicago Inter
Ocean, Juny p, rs follows:
Prohibition has certainly not in
jured any business interest, except that
of the saloon keeper, nor has ii driven
any good citizen from our borders.
The Hon. q. w. RuddIck, Judge OF
the Twelfth Judicial District, and one
of the oldest and best of the state, in
All oIifcial report dated June IL, 'S7,
makes the following statement:
The jails in this district are now
lille, and in eight terms of court held
by me since january 1st, there has
been but one Indictment presented.
and think the grand juries have been
reasonably diligent, much of the Grim
inai element has certainly emigrated.
The Hon. John w. Harvey, Judge
of the Third Judicial District of tins
state also makes an interesting state
ment concerning the influence on
crime. He has been Judge four years
and a half, In 1888 he sentenced 81
persons 10 the penitentiary; in 1884, 23
Iii 1885, 20; in 1886, II; and during the
first six months of 1887, 8. I am frs-
quently asked what is the cause oi
this decrease in CRIME during the last
four Years. My answer is the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law. In the
counties where the law has been the
best enforced there has been the least
crime"
When criminals are reduced from 81
TO s under prohibition ff we should
count for the last half of 1887 the same
as the first) Gen. Eaton's statement is
true, in Iowa. After years trial oi
prohibition under local option in At
lanta, Georgia, the Consultations of June
q, says:
s'The assessed valuation of property
has Increased two million and the as
sessment made by an assessor who Al
the time prohibition was alleged, wa;
an anti-prohibitionist, with an in
crease and growth in every depart
nIent that builds up society and NOR
aIify.r
Now comes Rome, city of L, 900 il
Floyd county, Georgia, and stands il
the front voting dry 1y $50 majority.
The temperance sentiment is growing
The Orcgoafd5 of a recent date seem:
to be favoring an anti-treating society
1t is good; the better form is in loca
option and the best has been proved
by actual trial Is the Prohibitory Con
stitutionAl Amendment, which will b,
adopted III Oregon Nov. Sth, 1887, anC
go into effect six months after. We be
lieve emphatieally in the parliamen
tary toothache cure which is extrac
: ton. No tooth, no teothache; no run
no drunkards, and no effects from it.
License high or low proposes TO pu
rum into the boy through gold fun
mel and then the boy in the gutter o
vice, crime, filth and ruin. Prohibi
tioA proposes to stamp out the rum
put gold into the boys pocket, homo
upon his brow, his feet upon the plat
form of integrity with pure heart,
blessing to society, and an ornament f
his friends.